People v Paige
2014 NY Slip Op 03335 [117 AD3d 475]
May 8, 2014
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 2, 2014


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Donald Paige, Appellant.

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Abigail Everett of counsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Emily Anne Aldridge of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Megan Tallmer, J.), entered on or about September 5, 2012, which adjudicated defendant a level three predicate sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly applied the presumptive override for a prior felony sex crime conviction, and properly exercised its discretion in denying a downward departure (see People v Cintron, 12 NY3d 60, 70 [2009], cert denied 558 US 1011 [2009]; People v Johnson, 11 NY3d 416, 421 [2008]). Among other things, the underlying conviction involved a pattern of serious criminal conduct committed against a child, and defendant has been convicted, in another state, of failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements. Concur—Tom, J.P., Acosta, Andrias, DeGrasse and Richter, JJ.